Teddy20 Annual Review 2023

We are delighted to share the document below, which encapsulates our comprehensive annual review for 2023! While you can catch a glimpse of some statistics above, the document itself delves deeper into the details of our journey throughout this year. Moving forward, our commitment is to continue providing these annual reports. They serve as a…

Santa’s coming to North Dorset

Join Teddy20’s Santa Sleigh as it embarks on a magical journey through North Dorset from December 2nd to December 22nd, 2024, igniting the festive spirit and making a difference in the lives of children battling cancer. This heart-warming initiative is a beacon of hope, spreading joy and raising essential funds for children and families facing…

Halloween Party 2023

Join us for a spooktacular evening at the Teddy20 Halloween Party! Get ready to celebrate Halloween in style with a night full of fun, frights, and fantastic costumes. This event will take place on Saturday, October 21, 2023 – 18:00 – 20:00. Tickets are £8.00 and can be purchased from Eventbrite here. Put on your…

Teddy Bear’s Parachute Jump & Zipline 2023

The Teddy Bears Parachute and Zipline event was a great success, graced by clear skies and not a drop of rain in sight ❤️ To our courageous teddies and their caring owners – your bravery has shone brightly today and we hope your day was nothing short of extraordinary! Our well-wishes go out to the…

A Night of Cabaret

Our Night of Cabaret promises a night to remember with a touch of sophistication and a sprinkle of fun. Saturday 14th October at Bryanston School Tickets £55 per person, includes prosecco reception, 3-course meal and live entertainment. Immerse yourself in the delightful atmosphere as you sip on the finest Prosecco during our reception. Our carefully…

Pedalling for a Purpose: Le Teddy Tour 2023

In a remarkable display of determination and goodwill, 12 men and women embarked on an extraordinary cycling journey across 3 countries.

The BEST Teddy Rocks Festival yet!

What an amazing weekend it was! Teddy Rocks Festival has outdone itself once again, delivering an even bigger and better experience! And what better time to do so then on their 10th anniversary. Our time there was simply unforgettable, with Vengaboys, East 17, GLC, Feeder and the Amazons being just some of the many highlights.…

Teddy Rocks Festival wins ‘Best Family Festival’ at UK Festival Awards!

Teddy Rocks Festival wins ‘Best Family Festival’ for 2022 at the UK Festival Awards! Teddy Rocks Festival was shortlisted for both ‘Best Family Festival’ and ‘Community Impact Prize’.Last night (6th December 2022) the UK Festival Awards announced that Teddy Rocks Festival had won ‘Best Family Festival’ for 2022! Festival founder Tom Newton and some of…

Santa’s on his way!

🎅 Santa is on his sleigh and heading your way but will he be stopping near you!? 🎅 Back for another year, Teddy20’s Santa and his Sleigh will be travelling around Blandford and the surrounding villages bringing lots of festive fun and Christmas cheer! See our Santa Stop map to see where he’ll be flying…

What your support helps us do…

What your support helps us do… This year, thanks to your kindness and generosity, we have been able to welcome 18 families into our ‘Ted’s Shack’ holiday home to stay for free. Costing over £10,000 to run and maintain each year, Ted’s Shack provides a comfortable break away from the hospital environment, where children and…

Teddy20 Halloween Party was lots of fun!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃 We held a Halloween party at the lovely Durweston Village Hall! A hugeeeee thank you to everyone who came to our Halloween party on Sunday 23rd October 2022. You all looked amazing in your costumes, we hope you all had fun 👻❤️ Big thank you to all of our helpers including, Mr…

Giving Tuesday – 29th November 2022

Do you know about Giving Tuesday? Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Over the last decade, this idea has grown into a global movement that inspires millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity. Read more about Giving Tuesday here. By donating…

Le Teddy Tour 2023 now open to sign up!

If you’ve been watching our video’s this week then you will know that we have announced the next cycle tour for 2023! Le Teddy Tour 2023 is now open for sign up 🥳🚴 We’re cycling across 3 Countries, from France to Amsterdam in just 3 days! Thursday 29th June – 3rd July 2023 📝 3…

Le Teddy Tour 2022 Full Video

In the run up to announcing our next tour we thought you’d want to see the WHOLE video from our last tour in June, 4 Countries in 4 Days. Following on from the success of Le Teddy Tour 2018, a new team of 9 cycled over 280 miles, across 4 countries in 4 days in…

We are a charity partner for Dream Challenges!

We are pleased to tell you that we are a charity partner of Dream Challenges! Dream Challenges are all about making your wildest dreams a reality. Whether you want to conquer a bucket-list challenge like climbing Mount Kilimanjaro or Cycling the Nile or you want to make a big impact for charity, Dream Challenges will…

Teddy Bear Parachute 2022

WOW what can we say… we are honestly blown away by the amount of people who turned up for the Teddy Bear’s Parachute Jump on Saturday 20th August at the Blandford Fire Station. What we thought was going to be a very small event turned out to be very different and we loved it. There…

MK Garrison fundraise at Rock n Ribs Festival

Were you at this years Rock n Ribs Festival? If you were I’m sure you would of seen these guys patrolling the festival all weekend and literally what troopers they were! Looks they had a great time 🕺🏻 A big big thank you for giving your time in this hot weather and helping to raise…

Team of 9 complete Le Teddy Tour 2022!

France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Le Teddy Tour 2022 – 4 Countries in 4 Days was a huge accomplishment for the Teddy20 cycle team! Following on from the success of Le Teddy Tour 2018, a new team of 9 cycled over 280 miles, across 4 countries in 4 days in June 2022 to raise money for…

Damien Hurst Guitar to go under the hammer!

Damien Hurst Guitar to go under the hammer! An incredibly generous gentleman, by the name of ‘Big Al’ has decided to auction off his signed, Damien Hurst, Black Spot Fender Guitar and would like to donate some of the money raised to Teddy20 🥰 Big Al says “I attended your festival for the first time…

Le Teddy Tour 2022 Promo Video

The Le Teddy Tour 2022 Promo is here! It’s been a long time coming after we had to cancel back in 2020 due to Covid, but now there is only 1 week to go before our team take on the Teddy20 cycle challenge, 4 countries 4 days! We cant wait to see the whole group…

Teddy Rocks 2022 was a huge success!

What a weekend!! It’s been a long 3 years waiting for this but boy was it worth it. The weather was on our side during the whole build and the festival with a little bit of rain joining us on the Sunday but it definitely didn’t spoil the mood! We must give a huge thankyou…

We’re Instagram Official

We are Instagram official, oh yeahyerrr 🥳 Follow us at @teddy20_scwc or scan the photo below and we will follow you back!

Ted’s NEW Shack Full Video!

The full video of Ted’s NEW Shack is here! Ted’s shack is a respite home offering free holidays to children undergoing cancer treatment in the Wessex region. Find out more here. Ted's NEW Shack 2022

New Ted’s Shack Teaser

We have big news for 2022! New Ted's Shack Teaser We’ll have a full video coming soon so watch this space!

**Teddy20 Job Opportunity**

Job Opportunity We are looking for 1 friendly person to join our team as a Teddy20 Charity Trustee. This position will focus on finding new avenues of funding and sponsorship through the corporate world of business around Dorset, Hants and Wilts. Applicants must have previous professional experience. If you are interested in joining our team…

Add us to your AmazonSmile account!

Have you heard about Amazon Smile? Amazon Smile is a way customers can support their favorite charitable organization every time they shop with Amazon, at no additional cost! It features the same products at the same prices as the standard Amazon site. The only difference is, when you shop on Amazon Smile, the Amazon Smile…

M&S Foodhall in Blandford donate to Teddy20

Instead of Christmas cards M&S Foodhall in Blandford donate £1 for every member of staff to Teddy20! How amazing do these guys look for Christmas!? and what a wonderful thing to do for Teddy20 thank you so much to the guys and girls at M&S Foodhall – Blandford.

Wessex Electricals raise over £2,000 for Teddy20

Wessex Electricals in Shaftesbury held a Christmas Tombola raising over £2,000 for their chosen charity, Teddy20! “Our Christmas Tombola was held last week, raising over £2,000 for our chosen charity Teddy20. We are incredibly fortunate to have very generous suppliers and clients who donated the prizes; from chocolates, to whisky, wines, hampers, a 55” TV,…

The town was lit up in honour of our Ted.

Today (20th December) would have been, Ted Newton’s 22nd birthday. His parents, Owen and Kim Newton, were joined by the Mayor of Blandford Forum, Cllr L Hitchings this evening to light up the Town Hall façade red, white and blue for Ted. This will now be done every year to raise awareness for Teddy20, that…

Santa made ALOT of children very happy!

What a month we had celebrating Christmas with you and Santa! For now, our Teddy20 Santa and his Sleigh are back at the North Pole getting so much needed rest before he does it all over again next year. Throughout his stops this big man in red saw over 300 children and thanks to your…

SANTA’S COMIN TO TOWN!

SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN TO TOWN! Will he be stopping near you? Take a look at our Santa Sleigh Stop map and times below to plan your visit!! £2.50 per child includes a visit with THE REAL Santa Claus and a sweetie gift (excludes the Big Yellow Bus Project Stop, free visit with Santa, no…

What a weekend!

It was a big weekend for Teddy20 supporting children with cancer with our Halloween Prep Party kicking it all off on Saturday 23rd October at the Woodhouse Gardens in Blandford. Two fully booked sessions of arts, crafts and games went down a storm not to mention Mr. Bear, the tombola, the mummy and of course…

Teddy Rocks Festival 2022 Line Up Announced!

It’s here – The line up for Teddy Rocks Festival 2022 has been announced and what a line up it is! A message from the Festival founder, Tom Netwon:”It’s time to fight! I have never been more determined to deliver this festival. Brexit, a pandemic, it’s been hell for us. But we are still standing.…

Important Notice: Fundraising accounts

Important Notice: Fundraising accounts Virgin Giving Money have made the decision to close and from 30th November they will stop operating so we will no longer be able to use this as our fundraising portal. The good news is we’ve set up with Just Giving which will allow you to easily set up fundraising pages…

Jurassic Coast Challenge Success

This year was the second time we’ve held the Jurassic Coast Challenge and what great weather we had for it. On Saturday 4th September we set off from Lulworth Cove. Our group trekked over 12 miles up hills down hills and across various terrain, it was a busy but brilliant day. We can’t thank enough those who joined us for taking the time to support and fundraise for our cause.

Teddy20 Skydive 2020

2020 certainly hasn’t been the best year with Coronavirus still hanging over us but today we managed to do our first fundraiser since March! Thank you to everyone who took part in what turned out to be a lovely day!

Teddy Rocks

Who is already counting down the days until this year’s Teddy Rocks Festival? Whether you are coming for the whole weekend or just for a day, we cannot wait to see you on 2nd/3rd May.So much hard work goes into making every year bigger and better than the last so you can expect so much…

Skydive 2020

Skydive 2020 This year we are doing our sponsored skydive again and so far we have had an excellent response with 5 places already taken! Feel this wind in your hair as you free fall from 10,000 feet knowing that in doing so you are raising money for such a good cause! If you are…

5 complete the Social South Cycle 2019

This year, in partnership with Low Energy Designs for the third year running, 5 cyclists completed the Social South Cycle 2019! This event involved a team of 6 (James Blackham, Owen Newton, Alan Parker, Rachel Baker, Ashley Baker and Stuart Read) cycling over 250 miles across the South West UK from 7th June to 9th June 2019 all to raise awareness and funds for Teddy20…

Mattie and David complete DW Canoe Race!

Mattie Morgan and David Burton from Bryanston Village took part in the annual Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Race over the Easter weekend.  The “DW” is the world’s longest non stop canoe race and is billed as one of the toughest endurance events of its kind.  The course is run over 125 miles with 77…

Owen Newton Live on Radio BFBS Blandford

Owen Newton was live this morning at BFBS Blandford Radio to promote Le Teddy Tour 2019 and also Teddy Rocks Festival 2019. To find out more about Le Teddy Tour 2019 head to our events page. Big thank you to Jason @ BFBS for having him on!

Le Teddy Tour 2019 Info Night

On Wednesday 27th February 2019 we’ll be holding an Information Night at The Brewery Tap in Blandford, for anyone who might be interested in taking to the saddle for this years Le Teddy Tour 2019 🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️ You can meet some of last years and this years cycling team, see route profiles and the itinerary. It will…

Bournemouth & District Branch annual quiz!

The Bournemouth & District Branch are delighted to invite you to save the date for the Branch’s Annual Quiz! This event is in aid of Teddy 20: Supporting Children with Cancer, and is kindly sponsored by Ash Elite: Specialist Legal Recruitment. Details: Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2019 Time: 6:30 pm Venue: The Queen’s Hotel, Meyrick Road, Bournemouth, Dorset…

Xmas toy drop off to Kingfisher & Piam Brown Ward

Teddy20 presenting Kingfisher Ward at Dorchester County Hospital with Xmas gifts and toys for the play room 28.11.2018 Teddy20 present Piam Brown Ward at University Hospital Southampton with Xmas gifts and toys 29.11.2018  

Santa had his first trip out on his sleigh!

Santa had his first trip out on his sleigh to The Old Ox Inn Shillingstone tonight and was very successful. Thank you to Trina and Boyce for their hospitality and to the little boy that gave his pocket money to help the children! Next visit is at The Charlton Inn in Charlton Marshall 6th December…

Christmas Evening Featuring Santa & His Sleigh @ The White Horse Inn, Stourpaine

On Friday 7th December Teddy20 will be bringing Santa & His Sleigh to The White Horse Inn, Stourpaine. He will arrive at approx 6.45pm. The Bubbly Pizza Company will be here (as long as it isn’t pouring with rain) with their delicious homemade pizzas and a small Brass Band will be getting you into the festive spirit with their…

Our Teddy20 elves were hard at work!

The Teddy20 Elves were hard at work the other night in Smyths Superstore Bournemouth.  A very successful Christmas Toy Shop. A HUGE thank you to the staff who made our trip go very smoothly.

Teddy laughs @ the Comedy Exchange

An amazing evening of Clean Stand-up Comedy in aid of the Teddy20 Charity! Tickets are now on sale for Teddy Laughs @ the Comedy Exchange on 26th January 2019!! You can find your ticket here! The Comedy Exchange The Corn Exchange, DT11 7AG Blandford Forum Click here to join the event on Facebook!    

Another hugely successful season at Ted’s Shack!

20 Heroes 23 siblings Bears too many Bear outfits – far too many Adults 39 Miles – 1,000 Happy memories HUNDREDS Thanks to my team for helping out and turning shack around to such a high standard – I know I’m fussy! Amy James, Jan net Boyd, Michele Corben, Veronica Jenkins and Sarah Churchill – couldn’t have…

Teddy20 are Tesco’s Bag of Help winners!

Wow, Teddy20 were this summers Tesco’s Bags of Help Winners!! £4000! A mighty thank you to all those customers who voted for us. Thanks to your help Ted’s Shack visitors will benefit from a fantastic scheme. Bags of Help is Tesco’s exciting local community grant scheme where the money raised from plastic carrier bag sales…

Teddy20’s Sky Dive was AWESOME!

We had a great day with GoSkydive in Salisbury on Saturday 8th September 2018. Big thank you to the 11 that took part today and to their friends and family for coming along to support them! Facing your fears head on is one of life’s biggest challenges so be extremely proud of yourselves! You’ve raised…

Special little visitors @ Ted’s Shack

This special little girl and her family had an amazing time staying at Ted’s Shack at the end of June. Esme is only 1 and has sadly lost her sight to cancer. Thanks to your help, donations and our wonderful Teddy Team, we were able to accommodate Esme and her family in Ted’s Shack. Ted’s shack…

Low Energy Designs

A massive thank you to our annual charity challenge sponsors, Low Energy Designs. For the second year running they’ve stood by our side and sponsored our charity challenges which include, Le Teddy Tour and Teddy20 SkyDive. As a thank you we gave CEO of Low Energy Designs, Alan Parker a framed shirt from this years…

Forum Framers

Big Thanks to Forum Framers & Gallery for donating a large shirt frame to Teddy20!! They have a lovely little shop in Blandford and also one in Ferndown which have all your framing needs! Go check out their website here.    

Le Teddy Tour 2018 is complete!

As you were aware, this month, in partnership with Low Energy Designs for the second year running, founder of Teddy20 Owen Newton, Challenge Sponsor Alan Parker CEO of Low Energy Designs and 8 others are cycling across 4 countries over 4 days to raise money for Teddy20.  THE CYCLE IS NOW COMPLETE and was a…

Teddy20 Virgin Money Giving Page is now live!

Our Teddy20 Virgin Money Giving Page is now live! You can create fundraising events in aid of Teddy20 and donate without any fuss! Check out our new page here.   You can also join our fundraising events like Le Teddy Tour 2018 and the Teddy20 Sky Dive 2018! Click on the pictures below!

Tarpaulins Direct gives discount in aid of TRF18

Thank you to Tarpaulins Direct (www.tarpaulinsdirect.co.uk) for their generous discount on their fence tarps (https://www.tarpaulinsdirect.co.uk/fence-tarp).             They’re exactly what we need for our Teddy Rocks 2018 festival in May. They stock a huge range of tarpaulins and are always happy to give a discount for charity events – check them…

Purely Print support Teddy20/TRF18

Local Blandford printers, Purely Print are kindly supporting our cause by providing free Le Teddy Tour 2018 poster prints for the Teddy Rocks Festival 2018! Without support from local business like Purely’s we wouldn’t be here.. we can’t thank you all enough!       “Large enough to cope and small enough to care. Our…

Riverside support Le Teddy Tour 2018

Riverside Travel have kindly agreed to support our Le Teddy Tour 2018 charity challenge by providing a free minibus and driver to transport our team of cyclists and their belongings during the tour! Big thanks to Riverside for supporting our cause which will help support children with cancer and their families!   Riverside Travel (Dorset) Limited is…

Sunseeker International donate £500!

A big Shout out to Sunseeker International for their kind support to Teddy20 this spring. Thanks John and Alex and the Sunseeker Crew for showing us around one of their Luxury Yachts! £500 towards the cause!

Teddy 20 Charity Sale!

                        On the 17th February 2018, the amazing Sarah Churchill organised and held a Teddy 20 charity sale at the Woodhouse Gardens which raised a massive £397.00! It was a great day and fantastic to see everyone supporting the charity and helping to fight…

2018 Teddy20 Sky Dive!

Fancy it? How about Free Falling with the Teddy20 Team this September?! Head to our Events page to find out more.

Thank You from Bone Cancer Research Trust & Kingfisher Ward

We received some amazing thank you cards and letters from Bone Cancer Research Trust and Kingfisher Ward at DCH. We love to share these with you, our supporters, because without you none of this would be possible!

Comedy Exchange Teddy Laughs

“I haven’t laughed like that in weeks!” The Comedy Exchange Teddy Laughs night was a huge success and everyone involved raised a mighty £603 for Teddy 20. In addition to this donations in the buckets came to a total of £78! It was a spectacular night that brought local communities together for an entertaining evening…

Teddy Rocks Festival 2018 reveal their main headliners!

  Teddy Rocks Festival started with a small gig in 2011 to raise money for Teddy20, a children’s cancer charity founded by Tom Newton and his family after he lost his 10 year old brother Ted to a very rare bone cancer. The gig was put on by Tom’s friends and family in the restaurant of The…

James and his crew take on the Bournemouth Marathon in aid of Teddy20

James Taylor, David Turner & Claire Chadwick are raising money for Teddy20 by taking part in two runs during the Bournemouth Marathon Festival on Saturday 7th October 2017 – the warm-up act Supersonic 10K run along the Bournemouth seafront followed by the main event…the Supernova 5k in full NBC (nuclear, biological & chemical) suit kits including respirators.…

Little Heroes Day

At the start of September 2017 we held a ‘Little Heroes Day’ party at The Crown in Blandford Forum, for all the children, young people and their families that we support. Guests came from all across the South of England and were provided with a free, fun-filled day out and a much needed break away from…

Teddy20 at the Shaftesbury and Gillingham Show 2017

Teddy20 showcase at the Shaftesbury & Gillingham Show 2017 to raise awareness of the charity.

Teddy20 take part in the Skydive 2017!

Imagine an experience that puts your senses into overdrive. One that has your heart racing, the adrenaline pumping and that leaves you so ecstatic you want to scream out loud. That was the case for Phoebe Newton, Charlie Garrod and Georgia Griffiths, who took to the skies and dropped out of plane from 10,000 feet on…

Owen & Tim complete the Predential Ride London 100 in memory of Ted

Owen Newton and Tim Cowley took on the Prudential Ride London 100 in partnership with CLIC Sargent and what a day it was. Both riders came in with times of 6:41 and 6:50 averaging over 14.5mph. Big thanks to our backup man Dave who made sure we got to the start and collected us on…

The Big Bash 2017 was a Big Success!

Fantastic day at Bransgore CC who hosted The Teddy20 Big Bash. Big thanks to all the clubs volunteers who scored, umpired, cooked and sold loads of draw tickets. With three teams tied on points Bransgore A won after single stump bowl off. The day raised £790.00. Teams taking part were Bransgore A and B, Teddy20,…

Le Teddy Tour 2017

This year we take on our second Le Teddy Tour event which will involve cycling over 350 miles from the iconic Eiffel Tower, Paris to Teddy Rocks Festival, Charisworth Farm, Blandford, UK from Tuesday 25th April – Friday 28th April. Like our Facebook page @TheTeddy20 to stay up to date with the latest news!

Burned-Out Festival 2017. The Anvil, Bournemouth in Aid of Teddy20

Callum Gough has been inspired by our Teddy Rocks Festival and Director Tom Newton he decided to set up and run his own fest in aid of Teddy20. The festival is taking place at The Anvil Rockbar (Bournemouth), on the 12th of August with it starting at 6:00pm. Lineup: Create To Inspire Outta Peak As…

The Big Bash 6-A-Side 2017

This Years annual Big Bash will take place Sunday 13th August at Bransgore Cricket Club (BH23 8AY) Six Teams take to the field in an all day competition Hitting Childhood Cancer for Six. BBQ, Bar and Refreshments throughout the day what more could you want on a summers afternoon. We will also be holding a…

Soul Kickboxing’s Challenge 2017

Soul Kickboxing will be taking on The Rocket Race on Saturday 4th November. They will be taking on over THIRTY Obstacles and covering a minimum of 8K Tooner Farm, Henstridge BA8 0PH

Teddy20 To Make Debut in this Years Prudential Ride London 100

This summer will see Teddy20 team up with CLIC Sargent to take on the Ride London-Surrey 100 2017. on Sunday 30th July Owen and Tim Cowley will take on the Challenge and cycle 100 miles around London and Surrey. Team Teddy Proudly Sponsored By

Support from ForFarmers

Great start to the new year! ForFarmers, Blandford working hard for Teddy20. Thanks guys.

Teddy Rocks Line Up Announced

Day splits and the line up! WHO’S EXCITED? I don’t think you can beat our excitement in being able to reveal this…

Ted’s Shack Opening Soon

Getting close now! First lot of Ted’s Shack confirmation bookings being posted today